Collisional Blockade in Microscopic Optical Dipole Traps
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- 19 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 89 (2) , 023005
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.023005
Abstract
We analyze the operating regimes of a very small optical dipole trap, loaded from a magneto-optical trap, as a function of the atom loading rate, i.e., the number of atoms per second entering the dipole trap. We show that, when the dipole trap volume is small enough, a “collisional blockade” mechanism locks the average number of trapped atoms on the value 0.5 over a large range of loading rates. We also discuss the “weak loading” and “strong loading” regimes outside the blockade range, and we demonstrate experimentally the existence of these three regimes.Keywords
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